Examiner Jacob Andrew Boeckelman

Grant ratio: 20.8% (31st percentile in Art Unit 1655 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.51. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 20.8%
Average office actions / grant 2.51
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
95735
Primary art unit
1655
Work group
1650
Technology center
1600
Applications
355
Granted applications
74
Examiner phone
(571) 272-0043
Supervisor
Terry Mckelvey
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-0775

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 29.7% 2.10
Group 208 40.4% 2.00
Tech Center 1,373 38.0% 2.02
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.29 814 office actions across 355 applications
Applications with office actions 96.3% 342 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 13 3.7%
1 OA 120 33.8%
2 OAs 106 29.9%
3 OAs 50 14.1%
4 OAs 38 10.7%
5+ OAs 28 7.9%

Each application is counted once. “5+” includes all higher counts.

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2020: 0.0% 2020 2021: 38.9% 2021 2022: 22.6% 2022 2023: 34.4% 2023 2024: 40.0% 2024 2025: 15.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2020400.0%
2021361438.9%
2022531222.6%
2023612134.4%
2024502040.0%
202544715.9%
202610700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 342 1.2% 7.6% 83.6% 1.8%
Action 2 222 0.9% 2.3% 90.5% 1.4%
Action 3 116 0.9% 0.0% 82.8% 6.0%
Action 4 66 1.5% 0.0% 84.8% 1.5%
Action 5 28 0.0% 0.0% 85.7% 0.0%
Action 6 13 0.0% 0.0% 92.3% 0.0%
Action 7 10 0.0% 10.0% 80.0% 0.0%
Action 8 7 0.0% 0.0% 71.4% 0.0%
Action 9 5 0.0% 0.0% 80.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.1% 5 of 452 office actions
All years 1.0% 8 of 814 office actions
Change +0.1 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
2.6%
0.0%
0.7%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
3.2%

Each bar is the percentage of office actions with a §101 rejection.

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 2. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
14.6 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 11, 2026 16/721,498 Affirmed §103
Aug. 29, 2025 16/640,770 Affirmed §103

The examiner match uses the last recorded office action before the decision. Reversal rates exclude rehearings, remands, dismissals, and other decisions that did not reach the merits. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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